Optimizing Motherboard Bios Settings

[chrome]

I was looking through my bios settings recently and realized that I have no idea what half of them do and whether they are what they should be. Please tell me if these settings are the most optimal. All the pics are of each bios screen.

My specs are as follows:

CPU: i5 2500k No OC, (high temps because my heat sink is put on poorly)

RAM: 8 GB Corsair XMS3 1333 Mhz

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68M-D2H

Video Card: GTX 660 Ti Power Edition (pre nerf)

PSU: Corsair HX 650W

120 GB Samsung 840 SSD

2 TB Seagate

Edit: Didn't type out hard drives in specs.

http://imgur.com/a/Aq1x7

[ProKoN]

3rd picture 2nd option

 

change that from IDE to AHCI

 

Cmon man seat your heatsink properly

[WoodenMarker]

3rd picture 2nd option

 

change that from IDE to AHCI

 

Cmon man seat your heatsink properly

Yeah^

Fix that heatsink. 87 degrees at the bios screen isn't exactly an "okay" thing if you ask me.

[chrome]

Yeah^

Fix that heatsink. 87 degrees at the bios screen isn't exactly an "okay" thing if you ask me.

yeah, I'm going to tomorrow when I get new thermal paste.

[chrome]

3rd picture 2nd option

 

change that from IDE to AHCI

 

Cmon man seat your heatsink properly

I tried changing it to AHCI but it blue screens, posts, asks if I want start up repair, then you get the windows logo thing for about 2 seconds then flash bluescreen, then it just loops doing that over and over again. So I put it back to IDE. 

[ProKoN]

are you using a sata hard drive or ide hard disc?

 

windows7?

[chrome]

are you using a sata hard drive or ide hard disc?

 

windows7?

It's windows 7 yes. And the os is installed on my ssd. My secondary hard drive is this: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=22-148-413&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Keywords=%28keywords%29&Page=1#scrollFullInfo

[ProKoN]

thats odd.

 

anyways it works! lol sorry it typically is optimal.

 

what does your ssd score in the wei?

[chrome]

thats odd.

 

anyways it works! lol sorry it typically is optimal.

 

what does your ssd score in the wei?

It gets a 7.7

[ProKoN]

ok well its healthy :)

[chrome]

ok well its healthy :)

weird.

[gibbsy81]

Set hept mode to 64bit mode may need to reinstall windows.

[mgsstar]

Enable Quick Boot (2nd image), Enable SMART (2nd image) , and Enable CPU Fan Fail Warning to be safe (last image)

[chrome]

Enable Quick Boot (2nd image), Enable SMART (2nd image) , and Enable CPU Fan Fail Warning to be safe (last image)

What does SMART do?

[blknight88]

I tried changing it to AHCI but it blue screens, posts, asks if I want start up repair, then you get the windows logo thing for about 2 seconds then flash bluescreen, then it just loops doing that over and over again. So I put it back to IDE. 

It had a BSOD because windows is not configured to run with drivers for AHCI since it was not installed with that setting enabled.

Boot up to windows with it in IDE mode and make this registry change:

 

Go to Run or Search in the Start Menu and Type regedit

1.Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"

2.Then go to "System"

3.Then go to "CurrentControl"

4.Then go to "Services"

5.Then go to "Msahci"

6.Then click "Start" and click Modify

7.Change the Value to "0"

 

Then restart your computer and then enable AHCI mode and reboot.

Windows will then install new drivers for your hard and your SATA controller.

[blknight88]

What does SMART do?

SMART is a monitoring function for your hard drives to check for errors and/or problems.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

[chrome]

It had a BSOD because windows is not configured to run with drivers for AHCI since it was not installed with that setting enabled.

Boot up to windows with it in IDE mode and make this registry change:

 

Go to Run or Search in the Start Menu and Type regedit

1.Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"

2.Then go to "System"

3.Then go to "CurrentControl"

4.Then go to "Services"

5.Then go to "Msahci"

6.Then click "Start" and click Modify

7.Change the Value to "0"

 

Then restart your computer and then enable AHCI mode and reboot.

Windows will then install new drivers for your hard and your SATA controller.

Thank you, will this increase performance?

[blknight88]

Thank you, will this increase performance?

Yes it should increase performance as well as add support for new features that IDE mode does not support such as Native Command Queuing and Hot plugging.